104 Pages
by
Routledge
104 Pages
by
Routledge
104 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
This volume contains a look at the cotton-manufacture industry in relation to a disapproval of a claim of Sir Richard Arkwright invention of ingenious machinery, initially published in 1823.
CHAPTER I. National and general Importance of the Cotton Manufacture, CHAPTER II. Early Modes of Spinning and Weaving, CHAPTER III. Improved Methods of Management and Disposal of Manufactured Cottons, CHAPTER IV. Invention of the Spinning Jenny, CHAPTER V. Invention of the Water Frame, or Throstle, CHAPTER VI. The Carding Engine, CHAPTER VII. Some Account of the Life of Sir Richard Arkwright, CHAPTER VIII. Mis-statements of the foregoing Facts, CHAPTER IX. Invention of the Mule and Exportation of Twist, CHAPTER X. Change of Character and Manners, in the Population, superinduced by the extension of the Cotton Manufacture, CHAPTER XI. Moral and Religious Character of Weavers, CHAPTER XII. The Steam Loom, APPENDICES
Biography
Richard Guest
